ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a range of functional targets that can be used for children with a range of speech needs. It suggests which techniques might be blended together to encourage progress, as well as ideas for practical games and activities to suit different ages or levels. There is a useful strategy for building up to using the sounds for children who need longer to learn the sounds or to build up confidence for production. The strategy is ‘match, select, name’. This means that therapists can begin by playing lots of games where the children just have to match the sound they hear with either the object or a picture. The targets are for working on sounds within play, using environmental and onomatopoeic sounds, when children are able to make sounds but are often only using open vowels. These sounds help children to make early links between a sound sequence and a word meaning.
